Tilt a doodle in perspective
Perspective makes a doodle lie down into the scene instead of floating flat on top of it. Use it to lay text on a road, wrap a sticker onto a wall, or angle a shape so it matches the surface behind it. It works the same way on Images and on Videos.
Open the perspective controls
Perspective lives with the doodle you're adjusting, not in a separate tool.
- Select the doodle you want to tilt.
- A small row of buttons appears beside it. Press the perspective button — the one shaped like a tilted rectangle.
- Its panel opens with the tilt controls. The button stays lit whenever that doodle carries a tilt, so you can tell at a glance which pieces are angled.
Press the perspective button again to close the panel.
Tilt with the two sliders
The panel has two sliders, and they're the fastest way to get a natural angle:
- Horizontal tilt swings the doodle around its vertical middle, so one side comes toward you and the other recedes.
- Vertical tilt swings it around its horizontal middle, so the top or the bottom recedes.
Drag a slider to tilt, and double-click a slider to set it back to flat. Both sliders live-update the doodle as you drag, and a whole drag counts as one change — a single Undo takes you back to where you started, not partway through the drag.
Drag the corners freely
When the two sliders can't match the surface you're aiming at, take over the corners directly.
- Press Adjust corners in the perspective panel. Four handles appear on the doodle's corners, following its current tilt.
- Drag any corner to wherever you want it. The doodle re-shapes to follow.
- Press Done when you're happy, or Reset corners to drop the corner adjustments and keep only the slider tilt.
Two things happen automatically while you drag. The doodle's normal resize handles step aside so the four corner handles are the only thing you can grab. And a corner stops moving once it would fold the doodle into an impossible shape, so it settles at the edge of what can be drawn instead of snapping flat.
Closing the panel also leaves corner mode, so you're never left with a doodle you can't move.
What can and can't be tilted
Every kind of doodle takes perspective — text, shapes, icons, emoji, stickers, brush strokes of every kind, and anything you've cut out of the picture — with one exception:
- Blur doodles have no perspective button. A blur softens whatever is behind it by a fixed amount, and a tilted blur would show an outline that recedes convincingly over softness that stays flat. It would read as wrong, so it isn't offered.
One deliberate detail on text: while a text doodle is tilted, double-clicking to edit the words gives you a straight, un-tilted edit box over the angled text. That keeps the cursor, your selection, and your keyboard where you expect them. Your text stays tilted on the canvas — only the editing box is straight.
Locked doodles
A locked doodle doesn't show the perspective button. Tilting changes a doodle's shape rather than just moving it around, so it counts as the kind of edit locking is there to prevent. Unlock the doodle to tilt it.